I really never thought much about how deep the feelings toward Osama Bin Laden run in a lot of Muslims I do have friends that are Muslim and I know that they don’t support him but we have never talked about their specific feelings toward him. I can understand how the feelings could run so deep. When a lot of Americans see any radical Muslim they see all Muslims and Arabs not the individual person. When a lot of Americans see a radical Christian leader they tend to see that person as radical not all of Christianity. I think this is because most Americans either are Christians or have a better understanding of Christianity than they do of Islam. I personally have generalized Muslims It took me a while to realize just how crazy this was I don’t think it was until I was in Iraq and got the chance to meet a lot of different Arabs that were both Muslim and Christian and also Kurdish people and it did change my outlook on an entire population and realize that there are individual people that do not speak for an entire people.

I think that if we just stopped the entire welfare system than there would be a lot of problems. Like Sam said that most of the people receiving welfare assistance are children so to just shut down the system we would be in effect taking food out of the mouths of these children. I do support some changes to the system because I feel that giving someone the welfare check that is capable of working but not willing is pretty stupid and just plain wasteful. But if someone is unable to work for some reason I feel that it is a good idea.

I think that to a point this could affect quality to some extent. in the medical field even if the bases of hiring a person is affirmative action that person would still need to have passed medical school and have their doctorate so in that regard I do not think that the quality would be affected to an extreme. There I probably some situation out there where the quality of service would be compromised but right now I can’t think of any in particular. In regards to nepotism I think that this might have a bigger effect especially in fields where a degree is not a necessity.

I don’t think that there ever will or ever could be a point that no one would be offended at something. After all the time and money spent on research for the survey there are still people that don’t like something. When the ideas of political correctness are constantly changing and what is acceptable is also changing how is anyone of any race supposed to know what is socially acceptable as a whole. When I filled out my form it even said that it was simplified so that it would only take 10 min to fill out. Will all the multiracial people in this country there are very few people that would be able to fit into just one category. I really don’t understand what the big deal is with the census. There was numerous times before the actual forms came out that I heard that the term negro would be on the census so first off if people were shocked when they saw it on there then they were just out of the loop. Second there was plenty of explanation from numerous sources that I saw before it came out that did explain that there is still a large number of people that refer to themselves as negro. And on top of that there was also black and African American for the same box. I do feel there that there is some sort of that us against them mentality in some people. and if you don’t like something you should just keep complaining. It seems to me that all these people just want to keep complaining without any solutions. One of the things that I hate is complaining without solutions. If you have a problem with something then figure out a way to change it. In this case there really is nothing that any average person can do to change it. Without turning this into a religious discussion, from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount Jesus said, “To worry about something you can’t change is useless. To worry about something you can change is foolish!” These people are never going to change anything so they should just get over it. I really don’t have anything else to say about this but I need to get the four hundred and fifty words so I need to fill a lot of space. Well my wife just took her kayak out I should have gone with her but I have a lot of homework to do tonight. Maybe I will go out tomorrow. The weather is finally nice enough to go out I think I am going to have to take my bicycle for a ride and finish the homework a little later and that is 450.

I think that this is a good thing if at least just a start for the native Hawaiians to be the last indigenous group to finally be recognized and at least start to get back what is rightfully theirs. Once everything is finalized I think that I will be a good thing for the children to learn more about their history and culture. Also this could eventually bring more tourism dollars to these people that will still travel to the islands and I think that the tourists will be more interested in learning about the native people of the islands.

A lot of people questioned what Sam’s wife thought about him talking about this in class and I believe him when he said that she knows and doesn’t mind. This video all but proves that. As it was said in another response the discussion in class was a little more in-depth than I or a lot of the class expected and more in depth than I feel was entirely necessary. But on the same side maybe it was necessary to fully express what Sam wanted us to think about and realize. And that’s all I have to say about that.

One thing that I find interesting is that growing up we are told that if you don’t understand something that you should ask a question but there are still the areas that we cannot ask questions about and I still wonder why. There are plenty of things that do need questioned. Without questioning how is anyone going to learn and how is anything going to change. As Sam said the that’s just the way it is mentality in itself needs to be questioned. I do agree with some of the tea partiers in that we do need something major in the government to change. For the most part the people in the government are just continuing what their parties have been practicing for entirely too many years. Obama was preaching change during his campaign but after his election everything stayed the same. The two parties push their agenda as soon as they are in power and then as soon as they lose power the other one will do the exact same thing and the majority of the party will vote together for what I feel is nothing more than to have their party “win” and so often I think that they rarely completely understand what they are actually voting for. I could be completely wrong but I don’t think so. The health care reform proposal was close to two thousand pages. I wonder how many of these elected officials actually read and understand what they were voting for or against. My thought is that it isn’t too many. I think that so much of the time people don’t question anything is that they have become comfortable in the way things are and are unwilling to put themselves out there and possibly become uncomfortable with their position or even find something out about themselves. I do think that the discussion in class did just that. From reading a lot of these responses that is just what happened. A lot of people are responding that they were or are uncomfortable with that discussion. Personally I don’t feel one way or another about this subject. I am a guy so obviously don’t deal with this often so I don’t really have an opinion about it. If a female wants to talk about that subject I would be fine with that, if they didn’t ok I am fine with that too. During class Sam was wanting the girls to respond to the question asking if any of them were “bleeding” and that is something that is their own decision if they wish to answer or not. He was not about to force any of them to answer he was simply illustrating a point to try to get us to think and question why.

I did notice that too and it did seem to me that there is possibly a double standard there. I could see that in the same way that the white people that talk about racism and inequality can be labeled as racist themselves. It would be just as easy for the person that said something about the comments made by black and brown people could themselves be labeled. This doesn’t seem right or fair to me with everyone talking about wanting equality. I could be way off on this and frankly I just plain don’t know but it does seem like a double standard.

I have personally never thought about that issue I am Polish, Ukrainian and pretty damn white. This does raise a pretty interesting question and I would have no idea how to even begin to start answering it. I do understand the people of color vs. white questions because pretty much white people have discriminated against people of every race, religion, color, and creed so whether right or wrong most other people are lumped together because they all have that one common factor. There particular group has been or is still being discriminated against and the common “enemy” or perpetrator of that discrimination is or was predominately the white people. So I think that there I sort of a double edge sword and in this situation I would think that people should answer with whatever they feel more comfortable with.

It seems to me that during this interview that she might have been hiding her excitement and feelings. I don’t know if it is true but that was my impression. I also find it hard to believe that she said that she has not received any discrimination or sexism if you would call it that. I would assume that somewhere along the line there has been something or someone that has either said or done something. Maby not directly to her but I would almost guarantee that there a lot of people that have a problem with her. With that said I think that her getting the job could be a great thing as long as she didn’t get hired to make some sort of a statement or news story and I don’t think that this is the case with her experience I think that she could quite possibly be the best thing for the team. It will most likely not be the best season that the team has ever had simply because when there is a major change in any organization such as getting a new coach it will take some time for everyone involved to adjust to a new coaching style and I can see someone taking that very normal adjustment period and trying to flip that into the idea that she is not doing or capable of doing her job. This is more than likely not in the least bit true. I really do hope that the team has a good season and that will do something to possibly silence any of the naysayers. If this does workout I think that It could open a lot of doors for others in similar positions. One of the things I would like to find out is how the kids on her team do actually feel about having a female coach. I would suspect that none of them have ever had a female coach for any of their football teams. I know that I have never had a female coach at any of the levels of football I have ever played. One other good thing that I can see coming out of this is that there would possibly be more females that would consider playing football. I know that there are females that play at the high school level but they are few and far between and if there are females that want to play this could give them the little push needed to actually go out and try to make the team. I know that there were a couple of females that I went to high school with that I think would have made pretty good football players. But none of them ever tried out for the team.